Ella Fitzgerald albums discography: History and Key Facts

With the introduction of 10" and 12" Long-Playing records in the late 1940s, Decca released several original albums of Ella Fitzgerald's music and reissued many of her previous releases. From 1935 to the late 1940s Decca issued Ella Fitzgerald's recordings on 78 rpm singles and album collections, in book form, of four singles that included eight tracks. These recordings have been re-issued on a series of 15 compact discs by the French record label Classics Records between 1992 and 2008.

Ella Fitzgerald signed with the Norman Granz label Verve Records in 1956, and recorded with Verve until the mid-1960s. This era featured a series of eight Song Book albums, with interpretations of much of the Great American Songbook, based on tunes from Cole Porter (1956), Rodgers & Hart (1956), Duke Ellington (1957), Irving Berlin (1958), George and Ira Gershwin (1959), Harold Arlen (1961), Jerome Kern (1963), and Johnny Mercer (1964). The many standalone singles Fitzgerald released throughout her Verve years were re-issued on Jukebox Ella: The Complete Verve Singles, Vol. 1 (2003) and Jukebox Ella: The Complete Verve Singles, Vol. 2 (2025).

The late 1960s and early 1970s saw Fitzgerald release albums on several major record labels, including three albums on Capitol Records and two on the Reprise Records label. In 1972 Norman Granz formed Pablo Records, the label continued to release Ella Fitzgerald's albums up until her last recorded album All That Jazz in 1990.

The Ella Fitzgerald catalogue has continued to grow in recent years, with complete albums of previously unreleased live material and alternative recordings from her studio sessions.

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